Harry Potter star in Carlisle

STUDENTS did a double-take when one-half of the red-headed twin wizard brothers of the equally flame-haired Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films paid a surprise visit to their campus.
James Phelps, who dyed his hair red for 10 years while portraying Fred Weasley, looked completely unlike his onscreen persona with his natural brunette hair, on his low-key visit to Carlisle yesterday.
There were no screaming fans at the gates to the University of Cumbria campus in Brampton Road, but that didn't phase the 180 performing arts students who whooped and cheered as James, now 30, miraculously... read more

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